Lot 146
  • 146

Bible in Mohawk [New Testament. Gospel of St. John]

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Nene Karighyoston tsinihorighhoten ne Saint John | The Gospel According to Saint John (In the Mohawk Language). New York: Printed for the American Bible Society by D. Fanshawm 1818
  • leather,ink,paper
12mo (5 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.; 146 x 86 mm). Facing pages in Mohawk (versos) and English (rectos), including dual title-pages; some staining and browning. Contemporary sheep; worn, front cover detached.

Literature

Darlow & Moule 6797; Sabin 49846; Pilling, Iroquian, p. 130

Condition

12mo (5 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.; 146 x 86 mm). Facing pages in Mohawk (versos) and English (rectos), including dual title-pages; some staining and browning. Contemporary sheep; worn, front cover detached.
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Catalogue Note

Second edition of the Gospel of St. John in Mohawk. Pilling sardonically notes that this edition is "A reprint so accurate that it copies all the typographic errors of the first edition and reproduces the pages of errata at the end."
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